aps nothing is so ubiquitous in 21st-century America as fast food. Fully one-half of the country's food expenditures takes place in restaurants, and the large majority of those dollars is spent on fast food. It is no surprise that the two best-known brands worldwide are McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser examines fast food "as a commodity and as a metaphor," and his...